Thanks (for nothing) Obama!

People enter politics for a number of reasons, I suppose. How about obama? Glenn Beck makes a great deal about obama carrying on the socialist agenda of his father, but I don’t buy it. I mean really– obama is off on his 8th vacation, tripping around Spain with the fam. Does that sound like a Socialist? Yes, obama certainly acts like a Socialist in some ways; he is redistributing wealth, he is doing all that he can to destroy innovation and business, and he is taking everyone down to the lowest common denominator. But obama enjoys the high life way too much for a ‘Socialist.’

Meanwhile back at home, the latest round of unemployment filings took an ‘unexpected’ rise. Why does the press say ‘unexpected’, anyway? Thanks to ‘FinReg’, businesses are flush with cash but won’t even think about spending it to HIRE people. Thanks to the spector of cap and tax, large companies will wait to see how bad the damage will be. Many other businesses are licking their wounds from the health care bill disaster, waiting to see if the courts have the guts to honor the US constitution and throw it out. Then there are US small businesses, responsible for 2/3 of the job creation that goes in the country; they will be hit hard by the tax increases when the Bush tax cuts expire, and the last thing they will do now is take on more employees. Obama and his idiot advisors were to make this the ‘recovery summer.’

The unemployment rate is estimated to be around 17%, counting discouraged workers no longer looking for work. But obama parties on. Thanks (for nothing) obama..

I read an article by Peggy Noonan in the WSJ recently about how despite his ‘accomplishments,’ our boy-president’s number just keep falling.  Every sane American knows the reason why, and Noonan explained the reason for the others– obama has done things for himself, for his own vision of the world, but they are at odds with the wellbeing of the United States.  The health care fiasco?  Obama’s lies were not exposed by the complicit media, so it is only now that the truth leaks out, when it is too late to do anything about it– that the costs were grossly under-reported, that there are NOT savings to be made in Medicare and Medicaid without draconian program cuts, and that you CAN”T keep your doctor.  Oops!  Sorry!

Over the weekend the silly AJ, Holder, said that the reason he hasn’t gotten around to deciding on where to try the mastermind of the WTC attacks was ‘politics.’   Never mind that it is his call;  that he can simply decide and act– he is being held back by ‘politics.’  So what does he expect US to do about it?  Um, Eric, you are in a politically-appointed government job. Politics sort of go with Washington DC!   This from the guy who couldn’t bring himself to say that ‘radical Islam’ motivates people against the US during Congressional hearings about the bang-up job he has been doing. 

Other obama accomplishments this week– we learned that obama was able to prevent the case against the black panther party from going forward– those guys who ‘hate white crackers’ who blocked Philly polling places.  According to obama’s world, you can’t accuse a black man of racism.

Dump Obama, keep Arizona!

Also this week obama and Holder, freed up from prosecuting black racists, announced their intention to sue Arizona for passing a law that says ‘we are enforcing the law.’  In fact, obama announced intent to sue Arizona twice.  If you asked Americans who we should get rid of, I bet more would favor dumping obama than dumping Arizona.

Obama announced another moratorium on drilling in the Gulf.  We had one accident in 40 years of drilling, but he wants to keep his boot on the neck of residents of the gulf.  Don’t let any crisis go unused– and this crisis allows him to try to destroy the country’s energy supply.  Thanks obama.

The bipartisan debt commision that obama appointed a couple months ago was supposed to keep quiet until after November, but someone talked– and admitted that after looking at the real amount that obama is running up in debt, some of the commision members up-chucked.  If someone wanted to destroy the country from within, could they do a better job than obama has one in 18 months?

Now that the slowing of the economy is clear for all to see, someone should point out the obvious– that the stimulus package sucked.  We know that economic growth is stimulated by less government, less regulation, more certainty, and lower taxes.  In the stimulus obama gave us more government, more regulation, more uncertainty, and higher taxes.  Half of the stimulus has not been spent– and much that was spent went to projects that did NOTHING to increase jobs.  Obama still blames Bush 18 mos into his presidency– never mind that Bush also inherited a recession, and also inherited the WTC attacks that could have crippled our economy if poorly handled.  We bounced back from that devastating blow on top of a recession, thanks to good policy.  This one drags on because of poor policy.

We still have cap and tax to look forward to… and obama’s cronies floated balloons about increasing taxes far beyond the expiring Bush tax cuts, including eliminating the mortgage deduction and means-testing Medicare.  And he is still just getting started.

Thanks– for nothing– obama!

Other news–

I’ve writtten before about the problem with this type of a blog with this bad of a president– there is way too much material.  I become numbed each day by the sheer number of stupid things done by obama, and after thinking about all of them for awhile I am left not writing anything!  Call it F-up fatigue, I guess….

Today, I’m shaking my head at the lastet silliness out of little-boy-press-secretary gibbs in response to the question whether obama has spoken with the CEO of BP.  The answer:  no.  “why not?” from the incredulous reporter.  And gibbs’ answer:  some senseless mumbling about company governance, and that the Board of a company is the actual decision-making body.  OK… so he talked to the Board, then?

Um….. No.

A President who never ran anything EXCEPT the US

You really could not make this up.  I don’t watch much Fox news– only because I don’t watch much TV at all.  But the bit on Fox I saw this AM asked the question, how many CEO’s has obama spoken with?  The answer was a list of names many pages long.  Apparently the governance of THOSE companies didn’t cause the same problem!

So a couple months into one of the worst ecological disasters of all time, and obama hasn’t even taken the time away from his busy fundraising schedule to place a phone call to the CEO of BP.  No call to coordinate the clean-up efforts.  No call to discuss the reimbursement program for displaced workers.  No call to discuss the 20 attempts to cap the well!  What DOES obama do with his precious time?  He goes on the Today show to talk about ‘kicking someone’s ass.’  Speaking of which–  am I the only person out there to be disgusted by the lack of class of our pitiful president?  We all know he is in way over his head, but isn’t there someone to at least teach him how to ACT presidential?  Thanks– for nothing– obama.

I’m putting a web page together called ‘obama mistakes’.  The gibbs gaffe yesterday certainly qualifies… as does the failed stimulus, the 13 trillion dollar debt, and the creation of the ridiculous health care entitlement– at a time when Canada and Europe are going broke with their own health care programs.   With a small amount of thought I could rattle off a dozen or so examples of idiocy in the past few months– his apology tours, his drilling flip flop, cap and trade, the ‘stupidly’ comment about the Boston PD, his numerous cronies and tsars, his ‘gay military’ policy shift, his handing of GM to the unions that destroyed them in the first place… gee, a good start already.  But I want YOUR ideas as well.  Please send your suggestions for the top obama mistakes to info@obamamistakes.com.  And watch for the web page– be sure to let me know if you want your name listed, or if you want me to link to your web site.

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